# video-router

This skill picks a primary path for a video brief: generated footage, HTML composition, editing supplied video, or AUTO for a combined production.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 329
- Author: Orkas-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/video-router/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/video-router

## What it does

video-router classifies the brief and locks a primary workflow: Generate for AI-made footage, Compose for HTML-based motion graphics, or Edit for supplied video. When the finished timeline needs more than one of these paths, it selects AUTO. Explainer and animation requests usually lead with Compose.

The chosen path goes into the proposal. If the work later calls for a different primary workflow, the change must be confirmed with the user. This skill routes production; it does not create or render the video. For a fully specified edit, it hands off to `stage-edit`; when the footage or timing still needs to be located, `stage-decide` comes first.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill video-router -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/video-router/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/video-router/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill video-router -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/video-router/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill video-router -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/video-router/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio video-router
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/video-router/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill video-router -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --path packages/skills/video-router
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/video-router/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill video-router -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/video-router/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose between generated footage, composition, and editing
- route a timeline that combines multiple production paths
- lock the primary workflow before production begins
- decide whether footage needs to be searched for a specific moment

## Example prompts
- Choose a workflow for an explainer with animated typography and state the primary path.
- Use my footage, add a motion-graphics opener and generated b-roll, then decide whether this needs AUTO.
- Trim the supplied video to the requested section and select the editing path.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: video-router
description: Read this FIRST on any video-production request to pick and lock the line — generate (AI footage), compose (designed HTML), edit (cut real footage), or AUTO end-to-end. Trigger when classifying a brief and committing to a primary path; do NOT trigger for authoring compositions, generating assets, or rendering output (those have their own stage skills).
---

# video-router

Knowledge for picking a video production line and locking it before work begins. This skill is read for guidance; it describes **what to decide**, not any tool mechanics.

Read [production method and current-video checks](references/production-method.md) before deep reference analysis or delivery review. It distinguishes direct provider output from locally assembled output using the current executable plan, not the route label.

## Unavailable Production Runtime

If production, rendering, or paid tools are explicitly unavailable, still select the line and return a complete **unexecuted production package** for a clear brief: assumptions, script/narration, timed storyboard/shotlist, exact visible copy and captions, visual/audio direction, rights-safe asset provenance/fallbacks, export target, preview checklist, and final encoding/playback QA. Clearly distinguish planned from produced media and do not withhold the package behind a direction form.

## The three capability axes

A finished video is built from one or more of three orthogonal axes. Decide which dominate, then lock them.

- **Generate (A)** — AI-generated footage/imagery: photoreal shots, b-roll, motion, talking-head. Use when the brief needs real-looking or cinematic visuals.
- **Compose (B)** — deterministic HTML composition: explainers, kinetic typography, motion graphics, captions / lower-thirds / overlays, data viz, title cards, transitions. Use when the visuals are designed rather than filmed. This is the default for explainer/animation work.
- **Edit (C)** — intelligent editing of supplied footage: evidence-based selection/cleanup, deterministic cut/join/reframe/captions/audio work, and semantic AI video editing for bounded pixel-level changes.

## Decision rules

1. First distinguish an edit target from a production input. Keeping supplied video or its timeline as the spine remains EDIT, including captions, overlays, localization and supplied narration. Video used only as a reference, or supplied images/audio/scripts, do not select EDIT. Ask only if the requested output is ambiguous.
2. Read the brief (topic, aspect ratio, language, duration) and classify the **dominant work object**:
   - "explain / teach / animate / motion-graphics / kinetic text" → **Compose (B)** primary, optionally Generate (A) for b-roll.
   - "make footage of / cinematic / a scene of / a character doing" → **Generate (A)** primary, Compose (B) to overlay captions.
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